Many AWS customers over-provision their Elastic Block Storage (EBS), resulting in inflated costs and low capacity utilization rates ranging from 10% to 30%. Datafy, a startup, claims to help customers cut their bills by offering better granularity in cloud block storage. The head of business development, Gurdip Kalley, explains that EBS operates similarly to direct-attached storage, complicating capacity planning, especially in Kubernetes environments. While EBS is popular for its ease of use, the scaling down process is complicated, prompting customers to seek more efficient solutions like those offered by Datafy.
Customers usually massively over-provision cloud storage capacity on AWS EBS, leading to wasted expenditure, with utilization rates between 10% and 30%.
EBS is elastic, but it's not that elastic. Customers pay up front for capacity, much like mobile phone storage, regardless of actual usage.
Scaling down EBS volumes is cumbersome and akin to a migration process, discouraging customers from optimizing their storage solutions.
Datafy's solution allows for easier scaling by virtualizing multiple smaller volumes to minimize over-provisioning and reduce storage costs.
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